The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-12
A TERRIBLE WARNING.

What the Patient Monster, Society, IL Capa<
Bile OF Doing When Aroused.
New YORK, Nov. 1.-THE Journal Of Conn
merce, in its editorial comments on the Anarchs
ist executions. says:
Anarchists all over the country should take
warning from the terrible fate of their brethren
in Chicago yesterday. They call society a none
ster. Let them beware then, how they excite
this monster to use its awful strength in crushing
them. In defending law and order against wan.
ton attacks there is no length of severity and
cruelty even to which society will not
CO. Human lives are but as dust in the balance
when the safety of society demands their sacri-
1ca -Four men paid the penalty yesterday.
The next time these Anarchists hurl themselves
against the rock of our civilization they may
perish by the hundreds or thousands. Society
will kill them, bury them. and go about its busis
ness. They are like the birds who dash through
the night at the torch of Liberty on Bedloes iss
land and are stricken dead, while the light
burns undimmed as before During the New
York city draft riots society killed thousand
men. They did not have the honor of
trial They were shot, bayoneted or dubbed ia
death in their tracks. AS society warmed to the
work 1t gave no quarter, as it received none II
had as little mercy as fear. If there are tiger
ish instincts in our poor human nature. Anarch-
lists do not monopolize them. Policemen and
soldiers often forget that they blind and
passionless instruments of the Law, and thirst
for blood. II the constituted authorities shIrk
their duty, quiet and peaceable citizens organ
ize vigilance committees and maka
eallowsss of every lamp-post There
is no frenzy or ferocity among manlind or the
beasts like that Of society when defed and I'M
perriled. Witness the slaughter of the Com
murists-mep. women and chidren-after the
government troops were in complete possession
of Paris It was an indiscriminate butchery in
QnfTo rad mir fyr1tif and 1
rot stop until the soldiers hands were weary
with killing. Thus frehtfui the reserved
forces of society which Anarchists would CALI
into action. Let them beware"
The Suns editorial concludes aE follows: But
society has dared. and it will continue to dare,
to defend itself against anarchy. even if. instead
of four Anarchists, it is necessary 70 swing four
thousand Anarchists from the eibbet But is
will not be necessary. The Chicago hangnga
will make 1t Unnecessary
The Times saws: SIT is not often that men
make cowardly endngs on the scaffold- When
they conscious that whole nation. and
even the whole civilized world, ia watching their
last moments most men capable OF bracing
themselves To brave the inevitable. It is not by
any means a sign OF mans sincerity that he
prociaims under the gallows his devotion q
the principles that have led him to
commit murder. Any pretense that takes him
out of the list of vulgar and sordid criminals
will suffice for dying speech The wretehed
and spiteful Guiteau bore upon the scaffold
testimony that was without doubt false to his
own belief in his own mission The Times ADDS
that their dying words were proof OF their guilt,
and therefore, overthrow the pretense that
thew were victims of IL justice
The Tribune SAWS .sAs murderers they
should be buried quietly and Mt the expense OF
the State. without demonstrations Of mawkish
or morbid sympathy on the part of the working
classes. The municipal authorities will make q
serious mistake il they tolerate mock heroies or
funeral paceants IN the streets and cemeteries
The majesty of the law has been wins
dicated Ret-ibutive justice should not.
now be discredited as a mocke-y. American
working people should not be deceived oys
the false pleas made on behalf OF these MURDER
ers- 1t Is not that these were con-
demped TO death for their opinions respecting
law and society. They have been known as
Anarchists plotting q revolt against existing in
stitutions and striking down the police as the,
hirelings Of tyranniea capitalists. As Anarchists